In 3 months, the outraged and tormented people will call you to account and drag you alive through the mud of the streets.

” Caesar Fon Hoffacker, a prominent figure in the resistance in France, interrupted Fryler, saying, “Be quiet now, Hair Fryler, because today it’s my head, but within a year it will be yours.

” When Fryler sarcastically referred to General Eric Felgel’s impending death, Felgel replied, “Then hurry up, Mr.

President, or you’ll be hanging before we are.

” When Ulrich Wilhelm, Count of Schwarin Fon Schwanfeld, devastated by the conditions of his imprisonment, was brought into court without a belt or tie, he too tried to preserve his dignity.

He declared that his opposition to Hitler was due to the countless murders in Germany and abroad.

However, he was constantly interrupted by an enraged frysler who finally shouted furiously, “You are truly garbage.

” In the end, over 7,000 people were detained.

Of those, 4,980, including Fon Vitz Lebanon, Fon Hoffacker, Count Schwaran Fonwanfeld, and General Felge Gibble, were executed, often without the slightest evidence.

Some of the executions took place just 2 hours after the verdict.

Although the people’s court had always been a form of legal theater, the trials related to the July 20th plot fully exposed this grotesque spectacle to the German public.

Frysler’s contempt for the defendants was matched only by his devotion to Hitler.

He not only handed out death sentences generously, but also devised humiliating procedures such as removing the belts and suspenders of the accused so they would have to hold up their trousers.

Despite his unwavering passion in persecuting opponents of Nazi Germany, Frysler’s activities were abruptly cut short.

On February 3rd, 1945, three months before the collapse of the Third Reich, Allied bombers targeted Berlin in a devastating air raid.

The building of the People’s Court was hit while the then 51-year-old judge was presiding over a trial.

A falling masonry column crushed him, killing him instantly.

Some witnesses claimed he was found clutching the file of one of the defendants.

In a macob irony, the man who had orchestrated so many death sentences did not live to see the unconditional surrender of Germany, which took place in May 1945.

After the Nazi defeat, the Allied courts dismantled the criminal justice apparatus of the Third Reich.

Judges like Fryler were either dead or imprisoned, but this did not erase the impact of their actions.

Only a fraction of the legal officials who participated in the Nazi system were held accountable.

Many of them returned to legal practice after the war.

At the very least, the people’s court was formally abolished and its decisions were declared null and void by postwar German authorities.

Louisa Fon Benda, wife of General Alfred Yodel, recounted more than 25 years later that she was working at the Luto Hospital when Frysler’s corpse was brought in.

Upon seeing the body of the terrible magistrate, a hospital worker commented, “It is God’s verdict.

” No one responded.

Frysler’s body was buried in his wife’s family grave in Berlin.

His name does not appear on the tombstone.

Thank you very much for your audience.

May God bless you all a big hug and see you soon.

 

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